Written by

Jim Hague
| For NJ Press Media

The first two months of the high school football season had definitely not been kind to the Red Hawks of Parsippany.

There was the introduction and initiation of yet another new head coach, this time Flip McGuane, the program's fifth new coach in the last seven years. There was the specter of yet another losing season hanging over the program's collective heads. There were the grueling, sweaty practices of August, followed by the losses of September into October, six straight in all.

And last Friday night, the Red Hawks had a game they controlled for most of the night, only to squander the lead in ...